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FILE- In this Feb. 6, 2016 file photo, firefighters and construction crews work on clearing up after a construction crane collapsed in New York. The New York City Department of Buildings said Friday, Dec. 9, 2016, that the crane operator failed to secure the 565-foot crane the night before it collapsed in Tribeca on Feb. 5. The department says the operator also lowered the crane's main boom at an improper angle, causing the crane to become unstable and topple over. One person died in the accident. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Plans for managing the nation's largest national forest call for changes in timber harvests that one critic says will be "the demise of the timber industry as we know it right now."

Paramount Pictures said Friday the follow-up to the Oscar-winning original will premiere at next...

CORRECTS IDENTIFICATION TO JOHN BAKER, NOT KEVIN - FILE - In this Sept. 2, 2015 file photo President Barack Obama meets with John Baker, left, the 2011 Iditarod winner on Kotzebue Shore Avenue, which has dealt with erosion problems, in Kotzebue, Alaska. On Friday, Dec. 9, 2016, Obama used his executive powers to add protections to waters off Alaska's west coast. The White House announced creation of a Northern Bering Sea Climate Resilience Area that will focus "locally tailored" protections on marine resources. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — President Barack Obama responded to appeals from Alaska Native villages and gave them more of a say in the federal management of marine resources of the Bering Sea.

Obama signed an...

U.S. Vice-President Joe Biden listens as Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau delivers his opening remarks at the First Ministers' and National Indigenous Leaders' Meeting in Ottawa, on Friday, Dec. 9, 2016. (Adrian Wyld/The Canadian Press via AP)

OTTAWA, Ontario (AP) — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced Friday that his government and the majority of Canada's provinces had come to an agreement on a national carbon pricing plan.

Trudeau has been...

In this photo taken on Thursday, Dec. 8, 2016, the Washington Capitol is seen at sunset as snow falls in Olympia, Wash. Snow fell across the Pacific Northwest as the first winter storm of the season hit the region. (AP Photo/Rachel La Corte)

In a Thursday, Dec. 1, 2016 file photo, Gambia's president Yahya Jammeh shows his inked finger before voting in Banjul, Gambia. Gambia's ruler of more than 22 years now says he won't accept defeat in the presidential election, reversing course a week after he conceded defeat. In a speech on state television aired late Friday, Dec. 9, 2016,, President Yahya Jammeh said that investigations had revealed voting irregularities that he called unacceptable. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Gambia's ruler of more than 22 years announced late Friday that he no longer accepts defeat in the country's presidential election, reversing course a week after he conceded to his...

FILE - In this April 30, 2012, file photo, Khloe Kardashian Odom and Lamar Odom from the show "Keeping Up With The Kardashians" attend an E! Network upfront event at Gotham Hall in New York. A Los Angeles judge on Friday, Dec. 9, 2016, finalized Kardashian and Odom's divorce nearly three years after she first filed to end their marriage. The pair were married in September 2009 and court records show many financial details of
the divorce were subject to a prenuptial agreement. (AP Photo/Evan Agostini, File)

A Los Angeles Superior Court Judge finalized the pair's divorce on Friday, ending a union that paired the reality show star with a...

Reno police officer Tim Broadway briefs reporters outside Hug High School on the north side of Reno, Nev., on Wednesday, Dec. 7, 2016 after a Washoe County School District police officer shot a student following a disturbance at the school. The student was taken to a Reno hospital where there was no immediate word on the student's condition. (AP Photo/Scott Sonner)

RENO, Nev. (AP) — An emotionally distressed 14-year-old armed with a knife had been bullied and beaten and was trying to escape from a crowd of classmates this week who had gathered to capture video of an...